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Current guidelines pertaining to the housing of laboratory animals express caging standards for rodents in terms of minimum floor space and minimum height, relative to the body weight of the animal.

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Approximately 305 million egg-laying hens live in the United States at any given time. Between 90 and 95 percent of these birds are packed into tiny, barren wire cages that are stacked in rows, one on ...

A mesostic is a poetic form where a vertical "spine" runs down the middle of the text. John Cage used this technique to "write through" existing texts, creating new works by reading source material ...